Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

A woman's heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it.

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I try to bear that in mind.

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?